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Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Ferocious winds and torrential rain tore into Jamaica Tuesday as Hurricane Melissa made landfall, the worst storm ever to strike the island nation and one of...

Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Hurricane Melissa was only hours away Tuesday from expected landfall on Jamaica, bringing devastating flooding and winds that officials warn will smash the small Caribbean nation's...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - US online retail and cloud computing giant Amazon said Tuesday that it is reducing its workforce by 14,000 posts to streamline operations as it...

San Francisco (United States) (AFP) - Amazon will lay off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and tech giant trims costs amid ramped-up investments in artificial intelligence,...

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela claimed Monday to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship deployed to the southern Caribbean, as Washington stepped up pressure...

New York (AFP) - US prison authorities will release Sean "Diddy" Combs on May 8, 2028, an online inmate register showed on Monday, following his jailing for more than four...

Kingston (Jamaica) (AFP) - Jamaican officials urged people to get to higher ground and shelters ahead of Hurricane Melissa's expected landfall Tuesday, with the prime minister warning it could bring...

New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks ended at fresh records again on Monday over optimism that the US-China trade war was about to ease, with a possible deal in...

Washington (AFP) - A pair of B-1B bombers flew over the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on Monday, flight tracking data showed, in the third such show of...

London (AFP) - Two climate activists were Monday spared jail by a UK court after they sprayed two planes with orange paint to protest US pop star Taylor Swift's use...